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24 January - 28 January 2011
COMMONWEALTH
Port Louis, Mauritius TELECOMMUNICATIONS
ORGANISATION

Overview
Mobile Number Portability (MNP) is a very complex project that affects virtually every area of an operator’s business.
Awareness of the implications of MNP and understanding of key concepts and dependencies related to MNP is crucial
for successful completion of the project.

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Mobile Number Portability
24 January - 28 January 2011

Objectives Course outline

• Awareness and understanding of the
extensive modifications required in
the network and IT systems
• Knowledge about the legal requirements
and the role of regulatory bodies
• Understanding of the key assumptions
concerning regulatory aspects, traffic routing,
interconnection, marketing and project
management
The course consists of two chapters; each focussing on specific
concepts. Chapter 1 covers Voice over IP (VoIP) whilst Chapter 2
covers Multi-Protocol Label Switching.
Part 1: Industry Overview, System Overview and Key Considerations
• Key definitions related to Number Portability
• Motivation

• Impacts of MNP on CN systems and available • Legal requirements

functionalities and solutions for each case
• Learn about how a coherent network-wide • Role of the Regulator
solution can be worked out and optimised
• Areas of cooperation between operators
• Detailed routing and network configuration
aspects
• Areas impacted in operator’s business
• Demonstration of solution and roll out
• Project set-up

Target audience • Strategy and marketing assumptions

• Position in negotiations with other operators and vendors

This course is intended for anyone involved in
the Number Portability project including project
managers, project workgroup leaders and experts • Porting process
in the areas of core network, VAS, IN, IT systems,
billing, interconnect, provisioning, service cost • Exchange of porting data between operators, central database
modelling regulatory issues and marketing. and other models

• Tariff transparency
Expected outcome • Solution architecture; MNP databases, their localisation and role
The successful participant will have reliably
demonstrated the ability to do the following: • Overview of routing schemes for voice, SMS and MMS

• Handling number portability issues

• Interconnect aspects
and requirements including regulatory
and legal aspects
• Support in operator’s IT systems and systems affected - including billing,
• To engineer extensive modifications required provisioning, porting process support
in the network and IT systems
• To plan for traffic routing, interconnect, • Overview of network solution
marketing and project management
• Discussion of key dependencies between various areas of the project
• Implementation of network-wide solution
and optimisation
• Understanding of detailed routing and
network configuration aspects

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 Mobile Number Portability
24 January - 28 January 2011

Course outline
About the programme
Part 2: Network Implementation and System Integration for development
• Discussion of important inputs and assumptions for the network project
and training (PDT)
• Defining a list of services and systems affected Managed by the CTO, the PDT is a unique
low-cost membership programme providing
• Defining and negotiating necessary changes in SS7 on inter operator interface needs-based professional training and
Network solution architecture; location of NP database(s) in network structure capacity building courses on
telecommunications policy, regulation,
technologies and telecoms business
• Details of routing models for voice and SMS and their realisation options
management.
SRF/MATF based solution versus IN based solution NPDB defining the
requirements and choosing adequate solution (investigating what The PDT has delivered over 3600 bilateral
functionalities are required in the network-level MNP database, discussing training and consultancy projects, covering
how to choose the most adequate NPDB solution in a given network every aspect of the telecommunications
environment) industry, training over 35,000
professionals in 33 countries of the
• Detailed discussion of modifications required to CN systems - MSCs, PrePaid, Commonwealth.
VPN, SMS, MMS, VMS, LBS, Interdependencies with systems surrounding
CN (mediation and billing, provisioning, interconnect); working out a coherent
network-wide approach

• Call flow optimisation, redundancy issues

About the CTO
• Solution rollout and testing
The Commonwealth Telecommunications
Organisation (CTO) is an international
development partnership between
Commonwealth and non-Commonwealth
Expert profile governments, business and civil society
organisations.
Dharmesh Gupta
It provides the international community
Dharmesh Gupta has over seventeen years of professional experience in with effective means to help bridge the
Telecommunication systems and applications. Out of this, around 8 years digital divide and achieve social and
of experience in Telecom Technologies and around 8 years of experience in economic development through the use
development of OSS and BSS & VAS Platforms. His experience covers Telecom of Information and Communication
System (Planning, Engineering, Implementation, Operations and optimization), Technologies (ICT) in the specific areas
IT Systems (OSS and BSS – development and operation) Products & Solution of Telecommunications, IT, Broadcasting
development (VAS and IT Application) and end-to-end Project Management
responsibilities in Technology, IT and VAS domain. He also has extensive and the Internet.
experience in Digital Telecom systems - Fixed line, wireless GSM, wireless CDMA
and Fixed and Wireless broadband. He has worked with TATA Teleservices Ltd.,
a leading telecom service provider in India and led the research product
development and technology based solutions.

Before joining TATA Teleservices in Jan 2006, he worked with IDEA Cellular
Limited, Mahindra BT, RPG Cellcom and ITI Limited. His professional qualification For more programmes and courses run by
includes a Masters in Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, the PDT contact us at:
Kharagpur (India) and he is currently pursuing a Ph.D. from the Indian Institute
of Technology Mumbai, India. He is a consultant with Eagle Photonics and a Tel: +44 (0) 208 600 3800
regular instructor on a wide variety of training and consultancy programs. Fax: +44 (0) 208 600 3819
Email: programmes@cto.int

In partnership with:
Eagle Photonics (India)
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